DomainTools

ICANNWiki Silver Sponsor
Type:	Independently Held
Industry:	Whois and Domain Searching
Founded:	2002
Headquarters:	2211 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98121
Country:	USA
Employees:	20
Website:	DomainTools.com
Facebook:	DTools
LinkedIn:	DomainTools
Twitter:	@DomanTools
Key People
Tim Chen, CEO Susan Prosser VP Product & Marketing

DomainTools is a leading provider of Whois and other related lookup services. Alexa ranks DomainTools' traffic as one of the top 150 sites for U.S. visitors, top 100 for Indian users, and in the top 200 sites for global internet traffic.

They are regularly involved in domainer events and policy meetings, such as ICANN meetings, the Domain Roundtable, DomainFest, and others.

Services

DomainTools offers a myriad of services related to Whois searches and DNS lookup; These include:

• Whois and Reverse Whois services
• Whois History
• Screenshot History
• Hosting History
• Reverse IP (patented)
• Name Server Reports

While DomainTools does offer certain free services, they also sell two different memberships to those who need complete and unlimited access to their search engines, databases, and professional services.

They sometimes highlight their services through the use of specific domains, such as DailyChanges.com and Screenshots.com. Screenshots.com was more recently launched, in December, 2011, and features historic screenshots of a given domain. While this type of service is offered elsewhere, DomainTools' version has received great reviews as it is more frequently updated, quicker, and features an entire screenshot.

DomainTools has recently been highlighting its Intellectual Property protection and brand management services. They were in attendance at International Trademark Associations's 134th meeting in May, 2012. These services include Reverse Whois lookups, Domain name ownership records and finding domain typos to trademark alerts, registrant alerts and domain monitoring.

Growth

DomainTools was acquired by Thought Convergence in 2008, and became an independently held company in 2009; they have recently increased their workforce, redesigned their website, strengthened their Alexa rating, designed and moved into a new office space, and invested heavily in new infrastructure and technical improvements.

In early 2012, DomainTools was delegated trademarks related to its names and services, and logo.

External Links

• DomainTools' Blog